Transcript The High-Power Target System for a Muon Collider or Neutrino Factory K. McDonald Princeton U. (May 2, 2011) 4th High Power Targetry Workshop Malmö, Sweden KT McDonald 4th High-Power.

The High-Power Target System
for a
Muon Collider or Neutrino Factory
K. McDonald
Princeton U.
(May 2, 2011)
4th High Power Targetry Workshop
Malmö, Sweden
KT McDonald
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May 2, 2011
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The Target is Pivotal between a Proton Driver and  or  Beams
A Muon Collider is an energy-frontier
particle-physics facility (that also
produces lots of high-energy ’s).
Higher mass of muon
 Better defined initial state
than e+e- at high energy.
A muon lives  1000 turns.
Need lots of muons to have enough
luminosity for physics.
Need a production target that can
survive multmegawatt proton
beams.
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Targets for 2-4 MW Proton Beams
• 5-50 GeV beam energy appropriate for Superbeams, Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders.
0.8-2.5  1015 pps; 0.8-2.5  1022 protons per year of 107 s.
• Rep rate 15-50 Hz at Neutrino Factory/Muon Collider, as low as  2 Hz for Superbeam.
 Protons per pulse from 1.6  1013 to 1.25  1015.
 Energy per pulse from 80 kJ to 2 MJ.
• Small beam size preferred:
 0.1 cm2 for Neutrino Factory/Muon Collider,  1 cm2 for Superbeam.
• Pulse width  1 s OK for Superbeam, but < 2 ns desired for Neutrino Factory/Muon Collider.
 Severe materials issues for target AND beam dump.
• Radiation Damage.
• Melting.
• Cracking (due to single-pulse “thermal shock”).
• MW energy dissipation requires liquid coolant somewhere in system!
 No such thing as “solid-target-only” at this power level.
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Target and Capture Topology: Solenoid
Desire  1014 /s from  1015 p/s ( 4 MW proton beam).
Highest rate + beam to date: PSI E4 with  109 /s from  1016 p/s at 600 MeV.
 Some R&D needed!
R. Palmer (BNL, 1994) proposed a
solenoidal capture system.
Low-energy 's collected from side of
long, thin cylindrical target.
Collects both signs of 's and 's,
 Shorter data runs (with magnetic
detector).
Solenoid coils can be some distance
from proton beam.
  4-year life against radiation
damage at 4 MW.
Liquid mercury jet target replaced
every pulse.
Proton beam readily tilted with respect
to magnetic axis.
 Beam dump (mercury pool) out of
the way of secondary 's and 's.
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Present Target Concept
Shielding of the superconducting magnets
from radiation is a major issue.
Magnet stored energy ~ 4 GJ!
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Free Liquid Jet Targets
Pros:
- No static solid window near target in the intense proton beam.
- Radiation damage to the liquid is not an issue.
Cons:
- Never used before as a production target.
- Leakage of radioactive liquid anywhere in the system is potentially more
troublesome than breakup of a radioactive solid.
R&D: Proof of principle of a free liquid jet target has been established by the
CERN MERIT Experiment. R&D would be useful to improve the jet quality, and
to advance our understanding of systems design issues.
Personal view: This option deserves its status as the baseline for Neutrino Factories and Muon
Colliders. For Superbeams that will be limited to less than 2 MW, static solid targets
continue to be appealing.
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Integrated Design Study of the Target System
Prior efforts on the target system for a Muon Collider/Neutrino Factory have emphasized
proof-of-principle demonstration of a free mercury jet target inside a solenoid
magnet.
Future effort should emphasize integration of target, beam dump and internal shield into
the capture magnet system.
The target system has complex subsystems whose design requires a large variety of
technical expertise.
• Nozzle configuration (fluid engineering at high Reynolds number)
• Solid-target alternatives (mechanical and thermal engineering)
• Mercury collection pool/beam dump (fluid, mechanical and thermal engineering)
• Internal shield of the superconducting magnets (fluid, mechanical and thermal
engineering)
• Magnet design (SC-1:Nb3Sn outsert, copper insert with option for high-TC insert;
cryogenic, fluid, mechanical engineering)
• Mercury flow loop (fluid engineering)
• Remote handling for maintenance (mechanical engineering)
• Target hall and infrastructure (mechanical engineering)
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Damage by Mercury Droplets?
Cavitation pitting of (untreated) SS wall
surrounding Hg target after 100 pulses (SNS):
Numerical model by T. Davenne (RAL)
Suggests that droplets can cause
damage.
Avoid this issue with free jet. But, is damage
caused by mercury droplets from jet dispersion
by the beam?
Preliminary survey of MERIT primary containment vessel shows
no damage.
Further studies
to be made with
Zeiss surface
profiler.
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Mercury Pool Issues
Both the jet and the proton beam will disrupt the mercury pool (Simulations byT. Davenne).
 Need splash mitigation
(V. Graves, N. Simos,
P. Spampinato)
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Downstream Beam Window
Of the 4-MW beam power, some 800 kW
will pass through the downstream beam
window.
Most energy is in scattered beam protons.
Beam window will be double walls of Be,
cooled by He gas flow in the gap.
Window unit is replaceable; attached to
surrounding beam vessels via pillow seals
(P. Spampinato, M. Rooney)
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High Levels of Energy Deposition in the Target System
Power deposition in the
superconducting magnets
and the tungsten-carbide
+ water shield inside
them, according to a
FLUKA simulation.
Approximately 2.4 MW
must be dissipated in the
shield.
Some 800 kW flows out
of the target system
into the downstream
beam-transport
elements.
Total energy deposition
in the target magnet
string is ~ 1 kW @ 4k.
Peak energy deposition is
about 0.03 mW/g.
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Overview of Radiation Issues for the Solenoid Magnets
The magnets at a Muon Collider and Neutrino Factory will be subject to high levels of radiation
damage, and high thermal loads due to secondary particles, unless appropriately shielding.
To design appropriate shielding it is helpful to have quantitative criteria as to maximum sustainable
fluxes of secondary particles in magnet conductors, and as to the associated thermal load.
We survey such criteria first for superconducting magnets, and then for room-temperature copper
magnets.
A recent review is by H. Weber, Int. J. Mod. Phys. 20 (2011),
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/weber_ijmpe_20_11.pdf
Most radiation damage data is from exposures to “reactor” neutrons.
Models of radiation damage to materials associate this with “displacement” of the electronic (not
nuclear) structure of atoms, with a defect being induced by  25 eV of deposited energy.
Classic reference: G.H. Kinchin and R.S. Pease, Rep. Prog. Phys. 18, 1 (1955),
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/kinchin_rpp_18_1_55.pdf
Hence, it appears to me most straightforward to relate damage limits to (peak) energy deposition in
materials. [Use of DPA = displacements per atom seems ambiguous due to lack of a clear
definition of this unit.]
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Radiation Damage to Superconductor
The ITER project quotes the lifetime radiation dose to the superconducting magnets as 1022 n/m2 for
reactor neutrons with E > 0.1 MeV. This is also 107 Gray = 104 J/g accumulated energy deposition.
For a lifetime of 10 “years” of 107 s each, the peak rate of energy deposition would be 104 J/g / 108 s
= 10-4 W/g = 0.1 mW/g.
The ITER Design Requirements document, http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/iter_fdr_DRG1.pdf
reports this as 1 mW/cm3 of peak energy deposition (which seems to imply magnet  10 g/cm3).
Damage to Nb-based superconductors appears to
become significant at doses of 2-3  1022 n/m2 :
A. Nishimura et al., Fusion Eng. & Design 84, 1425 (2009)
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/nishimura_fed_84_1425_09.pdf
Reviews of these considerations for ITER:
J.H. Schultz, IEEE Symp. Fusion Eng. 423 (2003)
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/schultz_ieeesfe_423_03.pdf
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/schultz_cern_032205.pdf
Reduction of critical current of various Nb-based
Conductors as a function of reactor neutron fluence.
From Nishimura et al.
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Radiation Damage to Organic Insulators
R&D on reactor neutron damage to organic insulators for conductors is carried out at the
Atominstitut, U Vienna, http://www.ati.ac.at/ Recent review:
R. Prokopec et al., Fusion Eng. & Design 85, 227 (2010)
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/prokopec_fed_85_227_10.pdf
The usual claim seems to be that “ordinary” expoy-based insulators have a useful lifetime of 1022 n/m2
for reactor neutrons with E > 0.1 MeV. This is, I believe, the underlying criterion for the ITER limit
that we have recently adopted in the Target System Baseline,
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/mumu/target/target_baseline_v3.pdf
Efforts towards a more rad hard epoxy insulation seem focused on cyanate ester (CE) resins, which
are somewhat expensive (and toxic) . My impression is that use of this insulation brings about a factor
of 2 improvement in useful lifetime, but see the cautionary summary of the 2nd link above.
Failure mode is loss of shear strength.
Plot show ratio of shear strentgth (ILSS)
To nominal for several CE resin variants at
reactor neutron fluences of 1-5  1022 n/m2.
From Prokopec et al.
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Radiation Damage to the Stabilizer
Superconductors for use in high thermal load environments are fabricated as cable in conduit, with a
significant amount of copper or aluminum stabilizer (to carry the current temporarily after a quench).
The resistivity of Al is about 4 times that of Cu at 4K,  favorable to use copper.
Radiation damage equivalent to 1021 n/m2 doubles the resistivity of Al and increases that of Cu by 10%.
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/klabunde_jnm_85-86_385_79.pdf
Annealing by cycling to room temperature gives essentially complete recovery of the low-temperature
resistivity of Al, but only about 80% recovery for copper.
Cycling copper-stabilized magnets to room temperature once a year would result in about 20%
increase in the resistivity of copper stabilizer in the “hot spot” over 10 years; Al-stabilized magnets
would have to be cycled to room temperature several times a year (and have much higher resistivity).
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/guinan_jnm_133_357_85.pdf
Hence, Cu stabilizer is to be preferred.
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Radiation Damage to Inorganic Insulators
MgO and MgAl2O4 “mineral insulation” is often regarded as the best inorganic insulator for magnets.
It seems to be considered that this material remains viable mechanically up to doses of 1026 n/m2 for
reactor neutrons with E > 0.1 MeV., i.e., about 10,000 times that of the best organic insulators.
F.W. Clinard Jr et al., J. Nucl. Mat. 108-109, 655 (1982),
http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/magnets/clinard_jnm_108-109_655_82.pdf
Question: Is the copper or SS jacket of a cable-in-conduit conductor with MgO insulation also viable
at this dose?
The main damage effect seems to be swelling of the MgO, which is not necessarily a problem for the
powder insulation used in magnet conductors.
PPPL archive of C. Neumeyer:
http://www.pppl.gov/~neumeyer/ITER_IVC/References/
KEK may consider MgO-insulated magnets good only to 1011 Gray ~ 1026 n/m2.
http://www-ps.kek.jp/kekpsbcg/conf/nbi/02/radresmag_kusano.pdf
Zeller advocates use of MgO-insulated superconductors, but it is not clear to me that this would permit significantly
higher doses due to limitations of the conductor itself.
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Radiation Damage to Copper at Room Temperature
Embrittlement of copper due to radiation becomes significant at reactor neutrino doses > 1023 n/m2.
Not clear if this is a problem for resistive copper magnets.
N. Mokhov quotes limit of 1010 Gy = 100 mW/g for 10 “years” of 107 s each.
http://www-ap.fnal.gov/users/mokhov/papers/2006/Conf-06-244.pdf
Summary
While proof of principle of a free mercury jet target for a 4-MW proton beam was
established by the CERN MERIT experiment, significant design issues must be
addressed in the coming years by an integrated study involving diverse engineering
considerations.
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